They call it 'falling in love' because it's less like stepping and more like tripping. Tripping is the part where you're still trying to remain upright

I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.

I didn’t realize I was frozen in place until a classmate shouldered into me, knocking my heavy backpack from my shoulder. “’Scuse me,” he grumbled, his tone more Get out of the way than Sorry I ran into you. As I bent to retrieve my backpack, praying Kennedy and his fangirl hadn’t seen me, a hand grasped the strap and swung the pack up from the floor. I straightened and looked into clear gray-blue eyes. “Chivalry isn’t really dead, you know.

I've changed since I've known you. Not because you made me into someone else - but because you showed me a path I'd never paid attention to, and I chose to follow it.

No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.

Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.

there's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; i used to be one